I started this week by attempting to open up a faulty hairdryer in my home. After trying the first few days to get it open, I was only able to[…]
Category: Cohorts
Alex – Critical Reflection #1
To be honest, I know very little about my subject in the grand scheme of things. Sure, I’ve taken psychology classes before, so I could say that I am knowledgeable,[…]
Poetry: April 16
April 16: This is the big poem. This poem is the one I have been writing for four years. In most of that time, I had never conceived of this[…]
Blog Post #2 : First Film – Tibeau Ferguson
Tibeau Ferguson Blog Post #2: First film A few days ago I received my film I handed in. The photos were of Fort Tilden in Breezy Point, Silver Towers, Civic[…]
Jane Olsen Post #4 Wellness Exploration
During my week focused on nutrition and food, I have also come across the concept of intuitive eating. This practice, that many people claim is resistant to diet culture, promotes[…]
Jane Olsen Post #3 Wellness Exploration
This week my focus is on nutrition, diet, the emotions behind food and how this relates to wellness. One of my biggest takeaways after exploring this theme for some time[…]
Julia Week 2: Blog #1
I finished that small design project. I solved for what I could, and figured out the basics for what I couldn’t. Turns out, the majority of the work in terms[…]
Olivia Week Two: Blog post #3
Interviewing: Today, I got to sit down with my mom and interview her. She has worked in advertising (the premise of my project) for over 15 years now, so she[…]
Molly- Week 2, Post 2
Community in the Time of COVID-19 Yesterday in my cohort meeting, I heard from a speaker named Sandra about how her art communities have been moved online. Sandra lives in[…]
4/16 – Bay
This week I read John Stuart Mill’s “Utilitarianism” for my online class. “Utilitarianism” is a manifesto that attempts to address the criticisms of Jeremy Bentham’s Greatest Happiness Principle. In the[…]
week 2, post 2
Essential Question: How can I explain the importance of personal style in an eco-friendly manner while simultaneously experimenting with my own? A few days ago I learned an important lesson.[…]
Week 1 post 2 (posted later)
essential question: How can I explain the importance of personal style in an eco-friendly manner while simultaneously experimenting with my own? Last week I got all my materials.[…]
Update #3: Sophie SF
On Tuesday, I had the chance to observe another weekly Leadership Team Meeting at The Hunger Project (THP). The meeting consisted of a group of long-time THP investors and fundraisers.[…]
Dakota – Week 2 Update 1
So far this week I have made turnip cake and Chinese black bean spare ribs with my mom. These foods are very nostalgic, as they were foods I ate often[…]
Shelter In Place Pod: Week2Update1
Second Week Update One: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1srLdZDjEoMQf24b8aahUUFl6-2VxRyy1
Working Out Ideas
This is just one page of thumbnails that I’ve done to workout ideas and the layout of a new comic strip. At this stage, I only use stick figures, boxes,[…]
Comic Strip #1: “Kitchen”
This is my first comic strip that I completed at the end of Week 1. When I started this I had an idea for a “storyline” and just drew a[…]
Blog Post #1: Timing and maping – Tibeau Ferguson
Blog Post #1 Timing for the blog posts is going to be hard. I am going out every day, taking photos. I am going to have to get over this[…]
Critical Reflection #1: What I Know vs What I Don’t Know – Tibeau Ferguson
Tibeau Ferguson CR #1 My essential question is “How can I depict brutalism through photography?” There are many things I don’t know about brutalism, which I am finding out through[…]
Onaje #4
I feel that my quick sketches and anatomy studies are going pretty well. Every once in a while, I struggle to find the dynamism in a certain pose, but through[…]
Ruthie Week 2: Blog #3
This morning my first two short stories that I have written were workshopped in my cohort group. The feedback I received was incredibly helpful, especially because one of the short[…]
Analyzing a Outfit: Week 1, Reflection 1 (Posted Later)
Essential Question: How can I explain the importance of personal style in an eco-friendly manner while simultaneously experimenting with my own? While reading the introduction to Overdressed: The Shockingly High[…]
Anna Mueller – Blog Post 3: Cohort Workshop
My Writing Cohort group had our first set of workshops this morning! We read the work last night and then spent some time writing notes for the workshop discussion. Ruthie[…]
Elisabeth Reflection 4/15
This week I’ve focused on bread making. I researched how yeast works and various chemical reactions that go on within bread like the maillard reaction. I also started the second[…]
Cassia’s #1 reflection for WEEK 2
Essential Question: How can I explain the importance of personal style in an eco-friendly manner while simultaneously experimenting with my own? For the wellness and community cohort, we had Sandra,[…]
Pierre’s Third Blog Post
This week I worked on completing a timesheet for a fake employee. I was given the info shown in the picture below. In this picture, as you can see, this[…]
Ariella Post #3
For my next dish I interviewed my grandmother on my mom’s side, Vivian Abady. She grew up in Egypt but was exiled due to her religion as a young teen.[…]
Critical Reflection #1 – Amouri Edwards
What are the other questions that are lurking just beneath the surface of your guiding essential question? My essential question is, How does street art impact NYC, from its[…]
Sophie Kielian Blog Post #3
The first few days of the second week of senior project have been successful and productive for me. On Monday, I was able to get a lot of research done[…]
Olivia CR #1
EQ: What makes a successful advertisement? SQ: What influence does advertising have on our culture? How does our culture influence advertising? So far in my Senior Project journey, I have[…]
Jaquie’s post #3
I am starting to put a list of people together from around the world as well as people within the United States to talk about their experience/impact of COVID-19 –[…]
Setting Up Maquettes for Composition
After completing my first comic strip, I decided to spend more time on composition in my second comic strip, since I didn’t focus on it at all previously. To do[…]
#3 – Nate (Apr. 15th)
4/15 It’s halfway through the second week of Senior Project, and Kamara and I will be recording and posting the fifth episode of our podcast in a few hours. We’re[…]
blog post number three
My book is getting more and more interesting, but also more and more complex. Moreover, one of the biggest parts I have gotten to seems to make a claim about[…]
Update #3
We recently started making hammer handles for the hammer heads that we will create when the forge is totally built. We have been using pieces of hickory that arlos father[…]
Update #2
Recently, we have been working to modify and refurbish the old forge blower that was given to us. We have done this by scraping off all the thick sooty residue[…]
Arlo Critical Reflection 1 – Blacksmithing w/ Ciro
How can we explore and express values of sustainability through the practice of a craft? So far in this project, we have spent significant amounts of time working but remain[…]
Nellie: CR1
How can we engage in Theatre while social distancing? For my project, I wanted to figure out a way to use today’s technology and resources to remain connected to the[…]
Arlo Update #3
4/15 We have now put up the skeleton of the outdoor structure. It is a 7’ x 10’ sideless, slanted roof structure that is 8’ tall on one side and[…]
Arlo Update #2
4/12 Since the last blog post, Ciro and I have gotten quite a bit done. At the end of the day on Friday, we cleaned the air blower we received[…]
Arlo Update #1
4/10 So far, this project has been going steadily but behind schedule due to poor weather conditions. On the first day, Ciro and I attempted to make our own lumber[…]
Dakota Critical Reflection 1
My essential question of what impact does food have on people’s lives is kind of broad but has a variety of possible answers. It’s important to be because my entire[…]
Cassia Soodak CR #1
Essential Question: Using What I Wear as Political Warfare: The Power in Secondhand Sourced Personal Style I’ve spent the past few days collecting all of my research and I realized[…]
#2: Critical Reflection #1
How can art be used to deepen our understanding of the complex topics addressed in Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved? During the first week of Senior Project,[…]
Michelle- Critical Reflection #1
April 15th How does the infant brain structure work? During our cohort meeting, Daniel alluded to how it’s a psychological phenomenon that when someone is an expert on something, they[…]
Layne – Week 2 Post 1
Above our my continued notes on research. I have continued to read about documentary theater specifically as well as think about story structure in general. This week I began and[…]
CR 1
My essential question is Does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and the instrument? Ever since I was[…]
Experimenting with the Process and Style
After I spent a couple of days doing some research and finding some inspiration by looking at other artists, I decided to start drawing and sketching. I did not have[…]
CR 1
Emily Nally April 14th, 2020 CR 1 Essential Question: What is the process of making comic strips like? Throughout my Senior Project process so far, I have used my prior[…]